The Greatest Medicine

Carl J. Welz

God loves man. The infinite Principle of the universe loves its creation. The divine Mind loves its idea. This love is to the human being who understands it the most effective of all medicines.

But how does one take the medicine? How does God's love for man become available to us when we are sick?

It comes through the very nature of God and our own true nature. We are not part of God, but we have a unity with God in that God is Love and man reflects Love. The love we feel and express individually, if it is selfless, pure, courageous, timeless, is true love. It is derived from divine Love. As we feel and express this love, we can partake of the qualities of Him who is Love and find our true nature. This nature is always healthy. But to do this, we need understanding.

Spiritual understanding separates the true love from the false. We love truly only when our love begins with God—when we love God first, then express toward others the love we feel for God and from God. We cannot love truly of ourselves, for there is no real love outside of God.

As we come to understand this, we find our relationship to the divine Principle of all being. And that relationship is our health. John says, "God is love,"^{I John 4:8;} and Paul says, "In him we live, and move, and have our being."^{Acts 17:28;} Christ Jesus taught that we have God's blessing through meekness, purity, justice, mercy, and love—qualities through which we show our faith and trust in God. He also demonstrated the healing power of Him in whom we should trust. And his whole life illustrated in vivid human terms God's love for each one of us.

Christian Science shows us that trusting God in the way Jesus taught is living scientifically. Consciously expressing God's qualities—not because these qualities will give us something but because we love God—is consciously uniting ourselves with Him who is Life, Truth, and Love, In reality we are never separate from Him, but the nature of our human selfhood is such that we find our unity with Him only as we become conscious of ourselves reflecting God's qualities.

To do this, we need to recognize the falsity of qualities that do not come from God and reject them. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy answers the all-important question, "What is God?" She says, "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love."^{Science and Health, p. 465.} To love God understandingly, we would consciously reject as unworthy of ourselves as His ideas, thoughts of corporeal, mortal, limited selfhood. We would actively adore Him by expressing divine intelligence, joy, spirituality, energy, wisdom, love, justice, and so on.

These qualities are expressed outwardly toward others. As we move our thoughts outward, giving of ourselves in love for others, there flows into our conscious being a fresh supply of new ideas direct from God. If we are sick, these new right ideas restore health.

The healings of Jesus and those that take place today in Christian Science show God's love for man—His ever-readiness to help us in whatever need we may have.

We have God's love already with us. As we acknowledge it and express it, we can feel it. Then we walk every step of the life we now live conscious of God's love and of His care.

The Principle of the universe is the Principle of our health. To become conscious of the love of that Principle for its ideas, and to find ourselves as God's ideas, is to feel loved and to be well.

Carl J. Welz

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